LIFE'S A BEACH!

SoCalLisa

Marl, and Faith, I am with you..I loved the chat back then...so many

remembered names..and like you, I have a few of us..

it is so neat to do that...

Here is one of our tidepools

faithandfifty

WowoWOWoWowWOwOWoWOWOwOWOwOW!!

So many amazing contributions.

Coming it at the end of a lovely day is such a toes-in-the-water sort of delight.

MissyB, thanks for sharing your little wonder-guy with us! I've never been to Legoland, but right now that is a total fascination with our grand-wonder-peeps. Right before we 'moved out' of our Ohio place I uncovered all of the Lego collection from our kids and took the whole lot to the wonder-peeps!

There's enough for all of their buddies to play with at the same time. While we were home last week I came across a Goodwill that had a HUGE HUGE HUGE box of lego pieces & Lego people for only $5.00..... so now they have enough for the whole neighborhood to have a Lego party.

Fun stuff.

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Julz, wish you didn't have such a full plate of 'life' -- because we love when you're here with us sharing your great finds of awe-inspiring wonder.

Edited an hour later, cuz I just saw I started a new page. LOL.

This is later on, the same night as the picture below.

This one is after the one in the next post. LOL.

faithandfifty

Sunset in Naples, FL -- last month. Gulf of Mexico.

barbe1958

Lisa, have you ever checked the tide pools at night? That's when they would be the most colourful. Let me know.

Julz, as usual, very calming pictures. I pray for some calmness in your flurry of life!

SoCalLisa

Barbe, I can't get to these tidepools at night..first of all they are inside a national

monument and it shuts down, but they are very difficult to climb down to..and with

my dizziness, it is a challenge in the daylight...oh, how I wish I could find a spot

I could visit at night

mumito

The photos ladies are wonderful. Nice to finally see some of yo0urs too Barbe. Lisa becareful I can picture you climbing around on the rocks with your camera

blondiex46

thanks for giving me something to change the background to and going to Wildwood, NJ, really the Villas.....away from here and these kids....17 year old twin boys are stressfull, along with having cancer....actually the older ones 36, 33 and 29 are worse..

Meece

Faithie, I ran across my kids' (and mine before that) Legos a couple months back.  The morning after their father died, I brought them out and sat in the floor with DS3 and "played".  We didn't talk, just built Lego stuff.

I informed the boys that the Legos will stay at Grandma's.

SoCalLisa

Meece, so glad you used Legotherapy..nice how that works isn't it..??

The kids and grandkids can talk, or not..

My grandmother used dominoes to have a one on one with her grandkids

and greatgrandkids..(BTW she almost always beat us!! she was over 95

at the end)

Meece

We also play cards with the kids, but we get to joking too much, it didn't seem appropriate at the time.

SoCalLisa

I took a walk today..lots of flowers, but can you believe my pointsettia is still blooming

MissBianca

Faith, what gorgeous sunset photos! The oranges are breathtaking. They are opening a Legoland in Winter Haven, Florida in Oct 2011. It will be the second in the States. The other countries that have one are Denmark, Germany, and England. Maybe it could be an adventure for you and your grandkiddos.

Lisa, your poinsettia pic could make a beautiful Christmas card, straight from sunny So. Cal! I didn't know they could bloom that long.

Meece

Since Poinsettias are from Mexico, they like your So Cal weather!

SoCalLisa

Meece, I saw these today and have really never seen any

like this before..any idea what they are, they look like an african

daisy, but not...

Meece

They could be a type of African Daisy, the leaves look like it. Or perhaps a variation of blanket flower.  They are beautiful and so delicate!

Meece

I could only find orange and yellow blanket flowers and the African Daisies only had the outer petals.  I am stumped.

marlegal

wow, sooo many gorgeous pictures!  Lisa, we almost met when you came to Phila, does that count???  Blondie, our trailer is in a campground on Route 47 just a bit north of the Villas.  If you drive by Hideaway Beach, wave HI for us till we get down there in a few weeks, okay?

barbe1958

Could they be a form of Aster or Passion Flower????

blondiex46

Marlegal I sure will my gf has a trailer at Holly Lake, was there before the season last year... I know exactly where Hideaway Beach is on the right hand side correct....

samsue

Just reading up on what everyone has been up to...... I've been held hostage by visitors. Well not really, hostage that is. But we've been busy. Baseball and all that stuff. Spring training here in FL so we went to some games, had to visit antique shops too.

I'm missing the beachies....

SoCalLisa

lovely samsue

Meece

I checked out Asters as well, barbe.  I couldn't find a matching photo.  The leaves loked more daisy than passion flower, but I thought of that, too.  I love passion flowers, but DH doesn't want anything vining.

Great picture, Samsue.

barbe1958

Maybe it's a mutt flower.

faithandfifty

I'm having an "over-night-spring-break-slumber-party" w a friend.

We may make it to the beach??

Thunderstorms make it a tad-bit "iffy".

Will report in with a verdict at the end of the day.

Everyone splash happy!!!

Meece

have fun, Faithie.

SoCalLisa

that looks like a great blue heron in a color phase

SoCalLisa

I think the flower is some sort of aftrican daisy ground cover..I just hadn't seen one quite like it before

Meece

I scanned through as much African Daisy stuff as I could, but didn't see it, but I am with you.

sheila888

Meece...check under exotic flowers.

I saw some resembling to this one. I'm not sure.

SoCalLisa

Roses are blooming as well